Leeds: Campaign for smokefree playgrounds

Children’s artwork is being used in a campaign to stop people smoking near areas where youngsters play.

New signs are appearing in Leeds this month to drive home the Smokefree playgrounds message. Children in the city were invited to submit designs.

Councillor Lisa Mulherin, Chairwoman of Leeds City Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board, said: “The public health impact of smoking is enormous and tobacco use remains one of the biggest preventable causes of early death and ill health in Leeds… Smokefree playgrounds are part of the support we are pledging for the Breathe 2025 campaign to have a generation of children where smoking is a thing of the past.”

Wales: No fines issued to people smoking in cars with children since ban introduced

No fines have been issued to people smoking in cars with children in Gwent since the law came into force three months ago.

The ban which came into force on October 1, 2015, makes it an offence for a person of any age to smoke in a private vehicle when someone under the age of 18 is present and for a driver.

A Welsh Government spokesman said: “We introduced the ban because smoking in cars poisons children. We don’t want to see people being fined or taken to court for breaking the law – we want them to stop smoking in cars carrying children.”

Anti-tobacco campaigners have urged the health minister to be “strict” about implementing the pictorial health warnings on tobacco packs.

The provision which dictates that pictorial warnings cover the upper half of tobacco packs is expected to come into effect on 19th March.

The tobacco industry however, in violation of the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), lobbied the health ministry to make changes to the provision.

They want to print the warning pictures in the lower part of the packs to reduce their impact.

Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance, National Anti Tuberculosis Association (NATAB), and Work for Better Bangladesh jointly at a press briefing on Wednesday in Dhaka urged the health minister to stay firm in its position.

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